Shark pond construction pictures

[ac]

Here are a few pictures of initial construction. The pond is 10X5X3.

 

[ac]

Couple more

 

[rykna]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

what kind of shark???????????

 

[blizz75]

finally, cant wait to see it going. Do you have a stock list?

 

[rykna]

I assume the walls are going be glass right!!!! Yeah what's the shopping list for the tank???????

 

[ac]

No glass. The inside is lined with plywood then a pond liner pad and pond liner. Trying to keep it relatively inexpensive. Right now the stock list is two smoothhounds that I have in another tank. They are about a foot long now. They're going to look like two peas rolling around in a garbage can. I plan on putting in some bottom dwellers(bamboo, epaullette) too.

 

[tanks alot]

how many gallons u gonna have

 

[lion_crazz]

wow, very cool project. Please continue to post pictures and updates.

 

[ac]

It will be about 1000 gallons. I will continue to post pictures as progress is made. This weekend is kind of a big push to make some progress.

 

[ac]

Here's a couple of pictures with the plywood lining almost done.

 

[clown boy]

This is going to be nice! :jumping:

 

[sea_star]

Man, that's an awesome project. Keep us updated!

 

[chilwil84]

loike the bolts/ lags couldnt tell by picture on the corners instead of thinking toenails (spelling) would hold good call keep us updated with pictures

 

[rykna]

Those are going to be 2 spoiled sharks!!!!!! Can't wait to see them!!!!

 

[hot883]

Cool, what ya going to use for circulation and filtration?

 

[ac]

For circulation/return, I'm using a pan world 200ps (1750gph). I'm hoping this will be enough. I'm making a large wet/dry and will have a 1000 gallon rated fluidized bed filter. At a later date I may add ozone, but I'm not sure. I may just stick with UV. I also have an aqua c ev-2000 skimmer. That turns out to be the most expensive part. It's rated at 2000 gallons. Right now I'm getting ready to place the returns and overflow in the sides of the pond. Then comes the liner. I'm not looking forward to the liner since it's difficult to get to all of the sides of the pond as it almost touches three walls of the room, and weighs 85 pounds. Hopefully I'll have some more progress pictures later this week.

 

[fishgeek01]

can we see pics of the sharks before the pond, i would love to see actuall pics of smooth hounds, don't think i have seen one as of yet...

 

[ac]

I'll post a couple of the sharks this evening.

 

[46bfinga]

you may want to rethink your return pump,it seem like you may want a higher turnover rate then that?i could be wrong though.may want to look into a sequence barricuda or something.
man that going to be nice,i may do something like that in my basement.have you put any thought into humidity or anything?

 

[ac]

I may have to add more circulation, I came by this pump kind of on accident. I have a vent fan in the room with the pump for humidity issues.